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For first time buyers, renting is cheaper than buying in most of the UK according to new data from the Halifax. London, the...
27 March 2024
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A survey from property portal Share to Buy suggests that over three quarters of buyers believe they cannot afford to purchase...
11 March 2024
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The PropTech sector has mostly agreed with the rest of the industry in its view on yesterday’s Budget - that it...
07 March 2024
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The letting agents’ trade body Propertymark has made the unexpected move of calling on banks to cut mortgage rates. Rates are typically...
01 March 2024
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Knight Frank has taken the unusual step of suggesting a government proposal for the housing market is high-risk and could even...
23 February 2024
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Labour leader Sir Kier Starmer has confirmed that Awaab’s Law - putting a strict timescale on urgent repairs being done -...
13 February 2024
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While most agents remain relatively tight lipped about party politics, the chief executive of Purplebricks has said the Tories should take...
13 February 2024
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There were 12,000 first time buyers over the age of 50 in the UK in 2022, the latest figures available. This means...
30 January 2024
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A Knight Frank survey of 50 house builders shows a staggering 70 per cent support for Labour to win the next...
29 January 2024
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Controversy surrounds a government idea - floated over the weekend - to allow renters to secure mortgages with just one per...
22 January 2024
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Propertymark has stepped into the row over a bank chief’s comments on first time buyers. Sir Howard Davies, chairman of NatWest, responded...
08 January 2024
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Airbnb and other short let platforms are from this week required to send data on their clients’ earnings to HMRC. And a...
03 January 2024
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The date has been set for the Spring Budget - the last before the General Election. It’s to be on Wednesday March...
28 December 2023
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One of the UK’s leading lettings agents is bemoaning what he calls “the missed opportunity “ to help the rental sector...
22 December 2023
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Young couples are delaying marriage and starting families until they get out of the rental sector, research by Yorkshire Building Society...
29 September 2023
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Financial support from family members - not just parents - is expected to help fund 318,400 housing transactions in 2023, according...
01 September 2023
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New analysis reveals that other family members beyond parents are increasingly lending their financial support to first-time buyers. So far this year...
29 August 2023
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New figures showing the growing size of first time buyer deposits suggest that many would-be purchasers will be staying with the...
08 August 2023
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The head of a consultancy that handles lettings agency acquisition has given her views on what a General Election might mean...
07 July 2023
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A prominent property law consultancy wants Help To Buy, or similar schemes, to be resurrected. Dutton Gregory Solicitors says that with the...
27 June 2023
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Well known broker Mortgage Advice Bureau will be showcasing a suite of new digital products today at an event organised by...
16 June 2023
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The rental market is set to benefit from a surge in potential buyers putting their purchase plans on hold. Data from NerdWallet...
08 June 2023
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A franchise network boss has sharply criticised both Labour and the Tories for their pro-tenant policies. Dominic Agace, chief executive of Winkworth,...
18 May 2023
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A company that tries to encourage people to buy a home in ‘chunks’ says few first time buyers are interested in...
15 May 2023
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A newspaper says Labour is seeking to woo renter voters by allowing councils to restrict new build homes to first time...
11 May 2023
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Senior Labour figures have come out with sharply opposing views on whether the party backs rent controls. Shabana Mahmood, a senior MP...
04 May 2023
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The property market could be emerging from the downturn, Zoopla says. Annual house price growth remains just 3.0 per cent according to...
04 May 2023
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New research from The Mortgage Lender reveals that 44 per cent of renters would like more cost-of-living support from the government. Specifically...
14 April 2023
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Leaders Romans Group's Suburban Build To Rent team has been appointed to jointly manage and maintain over 100 Build to Rent...
05 April 2023
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The government must focus on measures in next week’s Budget that will boost significantly the supply of homes, according to lettings...
09 March 2023
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A high profile mortgage lender operating in the buy to let sector has launched a series of products aimed at investors...
23 February 2023
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A new analysis suggests that the number of first time buyers has plummeted by over 10 per cent in the past...
23 February 2023
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The political party propping up the Scottish Government says higher taxes on buy to lets will help the housing market be...
31 January 2023
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A tax expert says the current economic climate has made it so hard to save for a deposit that many tenants...
11 January 2023
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The way to solve the rental sector supply shortage is through Build To Rent, a leading agency claims. Leaders Romans Group says...
09 January 2023
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The number of first-time buyers is estimated to have fallen by nine per cent in 2022, Yorkshire Building Society says. Analysis by...
05 January 2023
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A new survey from Aviva has revealed that over a million people may rule themselves out of the first-time buyer market,...
28 November 2022
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A new study from Rightmove reveals what aspiring first-time buyers are most likely to cut back on in a bid to...
17 November 2022
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Savills is the latest agency to suggest significant house price falls next year - although in its long-range forecast it says...
04 November 2022
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The latest Rightmove asking price market report suggests that the biggest victim of the current market mayhem is the first time...
17 October 2022
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A mortgage company chief executive is warning that house price falls of up to 15 per cent are likely between now...
11 October 2022
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The euphoria caused by the stamp duty cuts announced just before the weekend has given way to a realisation that they...
26 September 2022
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Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has announced that stamp duty will be cut. In future there will be no stamp duty on the first...
23 September 2022
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A high profile PropTech entrepreneur is amongst a series of investors linked to a new fund, launched today, cashing in on...
01 September 2022
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One of the biggest names in the deposit alternative sector says the rental market is “stacked against” private tenants. Gary Wright, chief...
31 August 2022
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Data from Rightmove shows how an interest rate rise today, when the Bank of England meets, might effectively boost demand in...
04 August 2022
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A quarter of homebuyers are putting off their purchase due to cost of living fears - and when it comes to...
22 July 2022
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The sales director of a property investment firm says high house prices, rising interest rates and the broader cost of living...
15 July 2022
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A new analysis of prospective first time buyers suggests that the cost of their initial deposit has soared in the past...
11 April 2022
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The monthly costs for a first time buyer are some 13 per cent lower than that of a similar renter -...
22 March 2022
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One of the most respected figures in British housing has joined one of the growing number of Rent To Buy companies. Lord...
05 January 2022
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A former Conservative councillor has used a leading party website to call on the government to restrict the purchase of buy...
30 December 2021
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A think tank says it would take a major policy change to fulfil Boris Johnson’s goal to turn generation rent into...
02 December 2021
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New figures provide further evidence of the difficulties first time buyers have getting on the property ladder - and why as...
22 October 2021
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The head of a lettings agency has drawn up a wish list for Chancellor Rishi Sunak to address in his Budget...
14 October 2021
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With house prices at an all-time high, showing no signs of waning, the age of first-time buyers is on the rise...
04 October 2021
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There’s been a 21 per cent rise in demand for properties from buy to let investors according to a new analysis...
26 August 2021
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A leading banking and wealth management company says a growth area for the rental sector in the years to come will...
12 May 2021
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Scotland must encourage more investors into its property market as a way of supporting its economy once the Coronavirus recedes according...
06 October 2020
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Government intervention, which in recent years has seen scores of legal and regulatory changes to the private rental sector, may be...
05 October 2020
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Nearly half of prospective home buyers have delayed their plans because of the Coronavirus crisis, a mortgage company says. Research by Aldermore...
24 September 2020
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A pressure group representing private tenants wants government to help housing associations purchase buy to let properties “at knockdown prices.” A blog...
04 May 2020
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Over 100,000 current or aspiring tenants have signed up to an education programme explaining how the rental sector works, run by...
09 March 2020
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When Wolverhampton estate agency Thomas Harvey opened its doors more than 50 years ago, mortgages weren’t really part of the equation...
28 February 2020
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Some 45 per cent of those who don’t yet own a home think they never will, according to a new report. While...
19 November 2019
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A new building society mortgage product is aimed at allowing students to become first time buyers and to simultaneously become first...
29 October 2019
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Research by franchise lettings agency company Belvoir suggests that landlords are continuing to exit the property market, although not at the...
19 December 2018
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The agency industry has reacted in a broadly downbeat way at the relatively few housing-related proposals that were announced in yesterday’s...
30 October 2018
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Belvoir says more landlords are selling up and fewer newcomers are investing in the private rental sector because of increased legislation...
24 August 2018
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The growth of the private rental sector has slowed thanks to government intervention and economic uncertainty - but it will expand...
15 June 2018
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A lettings trade body says 380,000 landlords may be about to sell at least one property - potentially flooding the sales market. The...
16 May 2018
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Belvoir has published what it calls ‘a decade of data’ tracking the changes in the private rental sector since 2008, when...
20 April 2018
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Millennials renting an average-sized property outside of London, who begin their tenancy at age 21, will spend an average of £110,830...
15 December 2017
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Stamp duty reform for first time buyers has taken pride of place in the Budget speech of Chancellor Phillip Hammond. From today,...
22 November 2017
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Over two thirds of landlords are reluctant to invest in new properties as a result of the stamp duty surcharge on...
22 November 2017
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The private rental sector is likely to benefit as a result of first time buyers’ lack of understanding of the timings,...
02 November 2017
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The Bank of Mum and Dad isn’t just a phenomenon in the sales market - new research shows it’s a growing...
29 August 2017
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New data from a survey of tenants suggests demand for the private rental sector looks set to be high for the...
03 August 2017
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Analysis of the government's latest English Housing Survey figures shows that there’s been a further decline in the home ownership rate...
03 April 2017
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Over 112,000 properties have been purchased through the Help to Buy: Equity Loan scheme since its launch in 2013 - and...
31 March 2017
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Renters are spending half their wages keeping a roof over their head, are twice as likely as homeowners to have no...
27 March 2017
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Tenants face potential rent increases of between 20 and 30 per cent as a result of tax rises hitting landlords, says...
17 February 2017
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The head of MartinCo, the country’s largest franchise agency group, says the government’s buy to let tax changes and lettings fee...
03 February 2017
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Buy to let landlords may be forced to raise rents or even sell their properties because of the government’s new tax...
03 November 2016
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In its latest bid to push Chancellor Phillip Hammond to back down on buy to let tax changes, the Residential Landlords...
24 October 2016
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The number of so-called ‘parent landlords’ is set to rise as increasing numbers of baby boomers use buy to let as...
07 October 2016
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The attempt to seek a Judicial Review of legislation reducing the mortgage interest tax relief for landlords has failed. The case was...
06 October 2016
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Over 5.5m Britons think that they will never be able to own a home on the grounds of cost. A survey of...
30 September 2016
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The news editor of London financial daily City AM has made an outspoken attack on the government’s fiscal assaults on the...
07 September 2016
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More than half of tenants would move or consider moving to a different town or city in order to buy a...
22 July 2016
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There has been a new development in a long-running spat between a website and the BBC over the corporation’s news coverage...
07 June 2016
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Ian Wilson, chief executive officer of Martin & Co, has given David Cameron’s government a “two out of 10” score for...
11 April 2016
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Future demand for rental property looks secure if Hamptons International's latest research is accurate - it says a typical single Londoner...
21 March 2016
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The gap between average incomes and the pay of tenants who want to buy their first property has reached a post-recession...
03 March 2016
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Not one of the raft of buy to let rule changes being introduced by Chancellor George Osborne - ostensibly to help...
01 March 2016
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A new report from the independent Social Market Foundation think tank has found that almost two million more people have been...
22 February 2016
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New research appears to show that well over a third of British tenants do not save to buy at all. A poll...
11 February 2016
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One of the country‘s leading rental sector analysts is warning that tax changes for landlords’ mortgage interest relief, and the imminent...